Correctional institutions · California

Chuckawalla Valley State Prison

Blythe, CA · ~804 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
19.6
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Chuckawalla Valley State Prison runs at 613% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Correctional institutions workplace, earning a grade F.

Chuckawalla Valley State Prison: 19.6 TCR = 613% of Correctional institutions BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chuckawalla Valley State Prison safety composite

Chuckawalla Valley State Prison scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 9% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

6/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 19.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 5% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Chuckawalla Valley State Prison: 10.6 → 19.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 30.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.76× in 2023

Chuckawalla Valley State Prison's TCR rose 8.8 from 10.6 in 2020 to 19.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 30.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922140 · Blythe, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 19.6 · 613% of ind

  • DART 14.8 DART
  • RANK #67/73
  • PHOTO California State Pri…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 233 inj
  • SIZE ~804 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: California State Prison Corcoran (0.1 TCR gap)

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Chuckawalla Valley State Prison in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Chuckawalla Valley State Prison averages 19.6 TCR (613% of the Correctional institutions BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Chuckawalla Valley State Prison TCR series: 2020=10.6 · 2021=17.9 · 2022=30.6 · 2023=19.3 · BLS 3.2

Where Chuckawalla Valley State Prison falls in its industry

482 Correctional institutions establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #67 safest of 73 Correctional institutions employers in California.

Chuckawalla Valley State Prison (804 employees, TCR 19.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 employees and a TCR of 5.8 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 05001,0001,500 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Chuckawalla Valley State Prison
Chuckawalla Valley State Prison (804 employees, TCR 19.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 employees and a TCR of 5.8

Chuckawalla Valley State Prison has more employees than the Correctional institutions median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.8. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2023 19.3 14.8 73 52 0
2022 30.6 20.3 58 205 0
2021 17.9 9.2 52 101 1
2020 10.6 8.0 50 41 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922140 · CA · Blythe

482 Correctional institutions employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 33 employers in Blythe, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR California State Prison Corcoran 19.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Charles Egeler Reception and Guidance Center 19.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marquette Branch Prison 19.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Madison County Detention Home 19.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE SANTA CLARITA_1441488 805 FTE
STATE-SIZE Forty Niners Stadium Management Company LLC 805 FTE
STATE-SIZE LISI Aerospace 806 FTE
STATE-SIZE Samuel Merritt University (215-OAK) 806 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 548 1,679 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ironwood State Prison 1,070 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palo Verde Healthcare District 121 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6962-ABS-0029-0028-03587 112 FTE
NAT-TCR Chesapeake Shipbuilding Corp 19.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Goodwill of Colorado - Platte 19.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Casa de Oro Center 19.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Arbors at Woodsfield 19.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Jubilant HollisterStier 804 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harrah'S Hoosier Park Racing & Casino 804 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aztem - Tempe 804 FTE
NAT-SIZE AES Electric LLC DBA Freestate Electric 804 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.